Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cock. The vast machine which now huffed & puffed for British Socialism was a monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...
...Railway King" teamed up with great technicians like George Stephenson, spread arteries of iron through the Northeast and Midlands. Wrote the weekly John Bull: "The whole face of the Kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities . . . the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant, the farmer and the gentleman. ... If [railroads] succeed they will . . . destroy all the relations which exist between man and man . . . and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress...
...Eric L. Peterson 3B and Robert D. Palmer 2B, the volunteers connected a tuning unit at McCulloch Hall with the Network's Winthrop House transmitter. Cable was laid in University steam tunnels, but crossed the Charles attached to piers of the bridge...
Like Admiral Byrd. The rachitic Long Island Railroad (which carries more commuters than any other U.S. railroad) bogged down most completely. Its electric trains got stalled and so did the steam locomotives sent out to rescue them. Many a passenger spent the night in an unheated coach, smoking cigarettes, dreaming of food and drink...
...letter of Thomas B. Anslow, 42, who won first prize (a Cadillac), had a ring as authentic as the clang of the drop-forge hammer he operates in Buick's Flint plant. Wrote Anslow, a veteran of 23 years: "A drop forge is a place . . . with giant steam-hammers, powerful forging presses, forging machines. . . . Pounding, pushing, squeezing white-hot steel. ... A forge . . . rattles the windows in buildings for blocks around. It is hot and dirty and it is noisy. It has a smell of heat and sweat and burning gases. . . . The rhythm of production you understand because...